Re: CVS export

[John Minnihan]

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> [ On Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 11:40:38 (-0700), John Minnihan wrote: ]
>
> > Subject: Re: CVS export
> >
> > Why use export?
>
> For all the same reasons you should use "cvs export" when checking out
> any actual release.


building =//= releasing, especially when the build is already understood 
to be an 'overnite' which is at the very bottom of the food chain.  Use 
of 'cvs export' to collect sources that are used to produce a build is 
almost never necessary.  This implies that the sources themselves are 
part of the resulting build (and thus should be cleansed of the CVS 
structure) and this generally is not true.

If unmodifed sources or file structures collected directly from CVS 
constitute all or part of your 'build', then 'cvs export' may be useful.

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